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Caring for children needs to be better integrated into how we conceive of work.
The pandemic ended in the early 1920s, but the virus left its mark for the next 100 years.
The House Speaker is not the first politician whose hair, and the styling of it, landed him or her in hot water. From Lincoln to Clinton to Trump, hair has been a thing.
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The American Dream has changed throughout history, but now we can't agree on what it ought to be.
Historians say a report by a D.C. commission to "remove, relocate or contextualize" the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial isn't cause for alarm.
The lawsuit claims that the city, the county, the Oklahoma National Guard and other officials not only failed to defend Black people from a White mob but aided in the killing and destruction.
For the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay, a Navy officer had a frantic top secret mission. Seventy-five years ago, Lt. John Bremyer raced 6,000 miles from Washington with an aged American flag.
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For close to a century, conservatives have seen all government programs as the road to socialism.
Harold Franklin, who integrated Auburn University in 1964, was blocked from earning his master's degree in history. More than a half-century later, he finally got the chance to defend his thesis.
In 1974, Maryland became the first state to pass a Law Enforcement Officer’s Bill of Rights, giving police protections that made it harder to hold them accountable. Other states followed suit.
Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis and other civil rights leaders made some of the same demands that are likely to be repeated at Friday's march.
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If the federal government doesn’t act, disaster recovery can be uneven and unfair.
